Report: Qwest Communications seeking to unload its long-distance carrier business?
Faced with $13.7 billion in outstanding debt at the end of the year, Qwest Communications reportedly is searching for a buyer for its long-distance carrier business, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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Report: Microsoft planning big ad push for search
Advertising Age says that the software maker has hired a new ad firm and may spend up to $100 million on ads for its revamped search engine.
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Glue gets Facebook support, recommendations, and "connected conversations"
Glue, the Firefox extension that allows friends to connect over movies, music, books and more, has just released a major update to their service, including Facbook Connect integration and recommendations.
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Office for iPhone--a big deal, but old news
Microsoft executives have already said they're designing the Office Web Apps to run in a variety of browsers, including Safari. They have also said that means they're targeting the iPhone.
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Angry mob turns back Google Street View car
A resident of Broughton, England, sees a Google Street View car coming down the street. He gets other residents together to surround the car and forces the driver to flee.
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IBM plugs sensors in for shipping, power grid
Making industry cleaner is, to an extent, a data problem. Two IBM projects rely on data-gathering sensors to make shipping and electricity distribution more efficient.
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Twitter touts search tweaks
Putting search results on a separate page wasn't "awesome," according to co-founder Biz Stone, so current design tests are putting them on the home page.
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Tesla: More than 500 takers for Model S
As the all-electric sedan premieres on the East Coast, the California-based automaker maker brags of dramatic interest since the Model S' Los Angeles debut.
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Getting a charge out of a beating heart
Scientists develop nano generator that uses heartbeat and blood flow to produce electricity.
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Goodmail debuts e-mail service with streaming video
Company launches CertifiedVideo, an e-mail service that embeds streaming videos into messages.
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Time for Web 2.0 to wake up and smell the money
Web 2.0 companies have a lot to learn from open source in the business context--like how to actually deliver a return to investors.
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Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service
Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
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AMD and Nvidia drop new $250 3D graphics cards
Establishing a new midrange battleground, the ATI 1GB Radeon HD 4890 and Nvidia 896MB GeForce GTX 275 include two-slot PCI Express design and multicard support.
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Google maps draw a line in sand for clean energy
Environmentalists create cheat sheets about places where alternative-energy developers are least and most likely to be challenged.
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Coal-to-gas venture GreatPoint heads to China
GreatPoint Energy has a technology that will make coal a lot less polluting by turning it into natural gas. Its first demonstration plant will be in coal-rich China.
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Photos: 'Broadband nation' shows connected lifestyle
The exhibit at the 2009 Cable Show displayed numerous potential broadband applications for urban, suburban, and rural settings.
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Microsoft: Web 2.0 is good for business
Business division executive Stephen Elop talks about how social networking, the iPhone, and Twitter affect business computing. Also: cloud-based Office is coming.
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As Intel's Atom gains, Apple still holdout
Chipmaker's Atom is proving to be a very popular chip, but is it too low-rent for Apple?
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Verizon promises 4G wireless for rural America
Verizon Wireless' CTO says the company's new 4G wireless network will blanket the entire continental U.S., even hard to reach rural America.
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KidZui 4 looks the same, but has back-end changes
KidZui's closed-system browser for children upgrades to version 4, but fans of the program won't notice many changes initially.
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Building Microsoft Office 14
In the latest update to Office, the biggest changes surrounded the software's look. The next incarnation, code-named Office 14, will have its desktop versions but will join the world of Web applications too.
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